Heavily depends. I've seen CTOs with 4 devs and CTOs with 100 devs who don't even know what programming languages they use. Which frankly is a bit of a red flag

Heavily depends. I've seen CTOs with 4 devs and CTOs with 100 devs who don't even know what programming languages they use. Which frankly is a bit of a red flag. There are probably only 500 CTOs globally who operate at the level of just "budgets and choosing platforms" with another ~100k CTOs who really are de facto system architect. All depends on scale, size of biz, etc.